What Portugal searched for on 17 October 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 21:21: granizo (50K+), medicamento (5K+), mb way (5K+), banco ctt (2K+), sequestro (2K+), josé luís carneiro (1K+).

• banco ctt2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  Banco CTT is upgrading its systems: from 15:00 on Friday, 16 October, until Monday, 19 October, the app, online banking, MB Way transfers, instant transfers and balance checks at Multibanco cash machines are unavailable. Cards still work and you can pay with them. If you are expecting a transfer or need to pay for something urgently, you are better off using your card or an account at another bank.

  

• granizo50K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  Hail and thunderstorms: IPMA has issued a yellow warning for 17 October from 13:00 to 22:00 for the districts of Guarda, Castelo Branco, Portalegre, Évora and Beja, with downpours of up to 20 mm an hour and hailstones up to 2 cm across. The unsettled weather inland will last until Monday.

  Source: ipma.pt

• medicamento5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  Infarmed has announced that Nolotil injections (metamizole, known in Russian-speaking countries as analgin) will no longer be sold from 1 February 2027. The tablets will stay on sale, and hospitals will have a replacement, Metamizol Basi. We don't know why so many people searched for such a general word today.

  Source: observador.pt

• mb way5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  MB Way has turned 11, and you can now add more than just bank cards to the app: meal cards (cartão refeição) and store cards from Universo, Oney, El Corte Inglés and IKEA. Just update the app.

• sequestro2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  In Vila Nova de Gaia, police have arrested a 26-year-old blogger from Portimão and her 28-year-old accomplice. According to the police, in July the pair drove two young men around Espinho at gunpoint for an hour to recover €3,500 for a trip to Greece that fell through.

  Source: observador.pt

• josé luís carneiro1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  Socialist Party leader José Luís Carneiro said he understands the anger of the housing protesters in Porto but called for order, and once again criticised the new rental law.

• secretaria-geral do ministério da administração interna · starlink5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  Row at the Interior Ministry: on 12 October Minister Luís Neves dismissed the ministry's secretary-general, Ricardo Carrilho. Carrilho has accused the minister of awarding a €4.5 million contract for the SIRESP emergency communications network without a tender. On 16 October the ministry sued him for defamation and asked the finance inspectorate to audit the secretariat.

  Source: observador.pt